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The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).

-- Elm borer (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles of which the larvæ bore into the wood or under the bark of the elm (esp. Saperda tridentata). -- Elm butterfly (Zoöl.), one of several species of butterflies, which, in the caterpillar state, feed on the leaves of the elm (esp. Vanessa antiopa and Grapta comma).…

To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood. [Obs.] In the Arabian woods embossed. Milton.

An adjectival suffix, meaning made of; as in golden, leaden, wooden.

plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostl…

h and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

e of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.

ers into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.

To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.

To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.

engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

ially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

nto); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.

Episcopal. [R.] Wood.

A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

f or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." Fuller. "The eremitic instinct." Lowell.

A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole.

s or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. Common of estovers. See under Common, n.

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.